Les presses du réel – editions
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An historical perspective of the representation of non-western art in western museums and imagination / an essay on the relations between African arts and avant-garde.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
A collective analysis of the emergence of the “contemporary” and the transnational and transhistorical logics at work in artistic practices in Dakar in response to questions raised by globalization since the Independances, opening up new territories for sociological, economic, political and aesthetic investigations.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
The second volume of François Huglo's literary portraits: du Bellay and Borer, Zénon and Valéry, Borges and Beckett, Leibniz, Proust and Redon, Kafka, Barthes and Derrida, Baudelaire and the oenologist Émile Peynaud, Bory and Novalis...
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
This reference book devoted to the figure and work of the choreographer Alain Buffard (1960-2013) brings together rich testimonies, extensive iconography and unpublished archival documents.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Examining how things are sold and exchanged within diverse cultural environments, past and present through a collection of contributions by social anthropologists and historians, this book builds a bridge between social history, cultural anthropology and economics and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural foundations of economic life and the sociology of culture.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
Drawing on extensive documentation and unpublished sources, this collective publication proposes an ambitious re-examination of Hans Hartung's prolific work and eventful personal trajectory as an actor in a broader history of abstraction, which also provides a fertile matrix for many other reflections on twentieth-century art.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
The collection of works by artists related to architecture and architectural projects of the Frac Centre-Val de Loire, as story of the origins: a rereading of the foundations on which architectural experimentation has been built since the beginning of the 1950s.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A collective and transdisciplinary study of the representation of plants and their powers to reflect on the question of animation, cinema, photography and, more broadly, image, in the Anthropocene era and in the context of the "vegetal turn" at work in the human sciences as well as in contemporary art.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph of the photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli, an active member of the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s: an overview of his work, with a dozen essays, an interview and the artist's writings.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
Jean-François Bory's travel diary to Japan.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
Divagations about René Ghil, Jean-François Bory, Lucien Suel: three authors who invented and practised the most diverse forms of “experimental poetry” and who have profoundly transformed the very idea of “poetry”.
2020
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
An archeology of Swiss experimental film.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Al Dante
The colony as a major philosophical concept in contemporary political thought—a basis for reflection on decolonization (expanded reprint of the book published in 2008).
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
10.00 5.00 €
The catalogue of the first exhibition in France of the Japanese performers' collective contact Gonzo.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Julien Blaine's performance manifesto.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Through the detailed analysis of Antonin Artaud's psychiatric history, Lettrist master Isidore Isou delivers a real indictment in this singular text which is both an investigation and a pamphlet.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
An overview of the experimental sound practices today (contributions by Jean-Yves Bosseur, Pierre-Albert Castanet, Bertrand Denzler, Bastien Gallet, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Fabien Hein, Michel Henritzi, Tom Johnson, Eric La Casa, Lionel Marchetti, and Matthieu Saladin).
2020
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
The first English-language anthology of writings by the Slovak critic Tomáš Štrauss.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An essay on art exhibition.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
currently out of stock
New monograph.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
The history of the CCN (Centre Chorégraphique National) – Ballet de Lorraine, the first National Choreographic Center in France: a look back over fifty years of history for a choreographic revolution, by Agnès Izrine and Laurent Goumarre.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An in-depth study of the diorama in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, a place for the creation and mediation of knowledge but also for the political construction of history, between art, anthropology and natural sciences.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
By renewing the dialogue with anthropology, this book invites the history of science to be refounded on other, more humanistic bases.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
An ambitious and transversal study on the crisis of humanism resulting from modernity, and on the historical consequences of the universalist and absolute conception carried by Futurism and the Bauhaus, proposing little explored paths for a re-reading of the artistic stakes in the 20th century.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
The scenography of the project for the restructuring of the Besançon Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology by Architectures Adelfo Scaranello.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
38.00 30.00 €
The 2 volumes of the catalogue documenting the project for the restructuring of the Besançon Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology by Architectures Adelfo Scaranello (special offer).
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Olivier Mosset's reference monograph offers a complete panorama of the work of one of the central figures in post-war abstract painting, and a pivotal reference for generations of European and American painters, covering six decades of practice, from the first experiments to the monumental recent works.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A collection of essays on audio archives of poetry.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Retrospective monograph.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
The proceedings of a symposium dedicated to the work of French
writer, playwright and poet Olivier Cadiot.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A poetic document found during a political rally in 2019 (against prisons), without author's name nor any indication of origin. Only mention at the bottom of the last page: copying. to be freely distributed.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A story, between myth and reality, of Caravaggio, by parodic artist Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
First French translation of Clemente Padìn's first poems.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A long poem that questions our being in the world with a freedom that is both new and timeless, as if these words came from the origins (limited edition, signed, including an original and unique artwork).
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A long poem that questions our being in the world with a freedom that is both new and timeless, as if these words came from the origins.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
An investigation into the female presence in the places of art and thought, where discourses on emancipation are fabricated.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The stakes of Francis Picabia's creative process, between exaltation and rejection of the self, at the heart of the constitution of modernity.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
A manifesto of the architecture of the air.
2020
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art since the 1990s.
2019
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
A talk between three artists around Julia Scher's work.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – The Drawing Centre
Michael Scott's ink drawings .
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The development of spatial and tridimensional drawing in American art, both in theory and in practice, from the 1960s through the 1970s.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Catalogue of the second Orleans Biennale of Architecture: a call for an archipelago of solitudes.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Erin Manning expands her research on movement politics to the concept of minor gesture.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
The reception of Charles Fourier's thought in Japan.